Wearable toy piano makes music, looks good doing it

Now here's a concept. A musical shirt with enough transistors to make even the hardest of hardcore nerd blush, and a long-sleeve garment fashionable enough to make even the world-class design student stop and admire. Mashed into one. The Musical toy piano shirt is that very piece, which was constructed to wow onlookers at the Electronic Textile workshop held this month in Switzerland. Packing removable batteries, speakers and circuitry, the shirt enables the wearer to emit eight different notes from Do to Do, and we hear there's nothing quite as cute as playing a song on yourself. See what we mean in the vid hosted just after the break.

[Via Coolest-Gadgets]

[aaron @ Dec 11th 2008 9:40AM]

Might as well drive a Subaru with a rainbow bumper sticker to complete the collection......

[zioncat @ Dec 11th 2008 9:49AM]

Engadget you guys are so clever I would so rock that if I were a douche bag.

[silverblackvoid @ Dec 11th 2008 11:22AM]

the two garments that i want this Christmas: the Microsoft Softwear Tee and this musical shirt. yay!

[NickNick @ Dec 11th 2008 9:40AM]

Michael Jackson would do a mean Thriller tune with this

[Akio @ Dec 11th 2008 9:43AM]

Yes, if they made it to fit 8 year olds :D

[Joe Rogan @ Dec 11th 2008 11:29AM]

M.J. skipped the shirt and went directly for the 8yo.

[Jim Halpert DM @ Dec 11th 2008 9:41AM]

I AM IRON MAN?

[profitablechoy50 @ Dec 11th 2008 11:23AM]

Nice call Jim, I'm more of a, "I INTENTED THE PIANO KEY NECKTIE, AND WHAT HAVE YOU DONE? NOTHING?!"

[Lu_Max @ Dec 11th 2008 9:41AM]

Looks kinda freaky touching himself all over that way.

Um, so... When they will be coming out with matching bongo drum shorts?

[NickNick @ Dec 11th 2008 9:43AM]

You should see how freaky it gets when he uses the guitar boxers

[From My Cube @ Dec 11th 2008 9:47AM]

skin flute is still the instrument of choice

[Vianon @ Dec 11th 2008 9:46AM]

That's one weird looking smile!

[jalapeno @ Dec 11th 2008 9:47AM]

Would suck to spill spaghetti sauce on that thing.

[Ethan @ Dec 11th 2008 9:47AM]

Don't wear it to the airport.

[Sans_Virtue @ Dec 11th 2008 9:48AM]

Make it yourself:

http://www.instructables.com/id/Wearable_Toy_Piano/

[trevor @ Dec 11th 2008 9:51AM]

if you leave the volume off all signs point to self pleasuring

[AMiSH PiRATE @ Dec 11th 2008 9:53AM]

um. I kinda want one. Thanks for the instruction link, Sans_Virtue.

[Ethan @ Dec 11th 2008 9:53AM]

"I am the music man, I come from far away, and I can play"

"What can you play"

"My long-sleeved T-shirt"

[jbp54 @ Dec 11th 2008 9:56AM]

The next clip this guy makes should be him getting gang tackled by airport security wearin that getup with the volume at max makeing all the beeps and boops as they taser him.

[MarbleMind @ Dec 11th 2008 10:30AM]

Looks like Captain Kirk's gala uniform.

...

*googles the interwebs*


Dang, he already has one.

[ran @ Dec 11th 2008 10:41AM]

New way of courting:

"Come push my buttons"

[Marcela @ Dec 11th 2008 10:45AM]

I can only think of two things when I see this shirt


MOLEST ME! MOLEST ME!

and


You can touch me, I touch myself....


Hummmm it just might be a new page in the 'dating' game

[bangladeshiluv @ Dec 11th 2008 12:55PM]

touch my body

[Patriks7 @ Dec 11th 2008 10:50AM]

Introducing the all newwwwwwwww [drum rolls..]

PIANO HERO!!!!!!!!!

[whiskey @ Dec 11th 2008 11:14AM]

Totally predictable from you guys (commenters), you would have drooled all over it if there was a female model, or if it was used to control an iPod, or if it had been made for a female model in the form of a bikini, right?

Oh, wait, you did... Back in 08/2007 http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/14/jwins-ipod-bikini-top-sports-wireless-controls/

So, ummm, what's your complaint here? That it wasn't a scantly clad model? That they didn't embarrass a little kid? The lack of Hello-Kittyness?

[Dale @ Dec 11th 2008 1:55PM]

and there would be a bunch of high ranks solely because of their comedic aspect.

[phanbouy fan fan @ Dec 11th 2008 11:17AM]

this shirt was obviously made for Ryan Block

[profitablechoy50 @ Dec 11th 2008 11:25AM]

Ok, enough's enough. It's getting a bit ridiculous...

[mos @ Dec 11th 2008 12:04PM]

he he, i want females touch all over my body.

[The Real Zam @ Dec 11th 2008 12:06PM]

Now that society has adapted to the illusion of talking to oneself generated by the use of bluetooth headsets, we now have to adapt to people touching themselves akwardly and mental illness simulating arm movements in touch-sensative fabrics. Imagine if this takes off and we have a society of people walking on the street looking like that!

[absurdio @ Dec 11th 2008 3:51PM]

Eh. seems like some of us didn't need to wait for the touch-sensitive fabrics to get started on "touching themselves awkwardly" and/or "mental illness simulating arm movements."

...*cough* seriously,lookityeravatar.

[derX @ Dec 11th 2008 4:49PM]

Yeah, you've gotta appreciate the irony.

[Galley @ Dec 11th 2008 12:09PM]

Mick Fleetwood had a shirt like this except it had percussion triggers. This was way back in the early '90s during a Fleetwood Mac concert.

[michaelportent @ Dec 11th 2008 12:43PM]

Blue Man Group just ordered a box of these bad boys for their next tour.

[MikeWard1701 @ Dec 11th 2008 1:59PM]

"playing a song on yourself"

Giggity.

[Magallanes @ Dec 11th 2008 3:26PM]

Tron guy want their t-shirt back
http://www.koruconcepts.co.uk/digital/tron_guy.jpg

[Sam @ Dec 11th 2008 3:33PM]

ThinkGeek has an ostensibly cooler (imo) drum shirt here:

http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts-apparel/interactive/ac0b/

great for one-liners.

also: http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts-apparel/interactive/a5bf/

[reuben @ Dec 11th 2008 8:46PM]

This would work so much better if he had some abs to speak of...

[Akio @ Dec 11th 2008 8:50PM]

I can see it now "what instrument do you play?" "myself"

[MoJo @ Dec 12th 2008 12:14AM]

I'd learn to play piano if you persuade Jennifer Connelly to wear it ;-)

[Fred M. @ Dec 12th 2008 8:33AM]

So now he can play piano -- when he's not doing an organ solo.

[Marcel @ Dec 12th 2008 10:09AM]

This needs to be worn inside out by pregnant women, so the baby makes licks when he kicks.

[Michiel @ Jan 9th 2009 9:00AM]

Can't Touch This, ow wait.. you can